Day Pass £25 | Free with Festival Pass
What you will learn
Putting together a film’s finance can be a complex puzzle. This session explains how your film’s finance hole can be plugged by securing film finacne and using tax credits.
There are different strategies you can use to secure private funding. Everything from selling a piece of the “pie’ to making your project donation worthy.
See how the professional fundraisers approach a film funding puzzle. And see how they fit all the different pieces available together.
Who should attend:
Anyone seeking new, fresh ways of securing film funding and tax credits by tapping into their entrepreneurial skills. Learn how to abandon reliance on public funding.
About the Panel
Kirsty Bell
CEO & Founder of Goldfinch
Throughout all of her childhood and teenage years Kirsty wanted to be an artist but growing up in Newcastle in a blue-collar environment meant a different vocation may have been ahead of her. She qualified in law, chose the accountancy profession and became a Chartered Tax Adviser and Strategic Tax Partner for Baker Tilly before she was 30.
In 2014 Bell decided to make a difference in the world of independent film and founded Goldfinch Entertainment to prove that investment can be looked after within independent filmmaking, opening new possibilities within the arena for creative visionaries. Bell has funded over 200 film and TV projects in her career to date including EP’ing the 2023 Best Short Film Oscar and BAFTA winner An Irish Goodbye.
In 2020, Bell directed her debut feature film entitled ‘A Bird Flew In’ – one of the UK’s first films to be shot straight out of lockdown. To date, the film has been selected for over 30 festivals and has received over 30 award wins & nominations including ‘European Breakout Director of the Year’ and ‘Best Female Director In Feature Film’ from Capri Film Festival and Vancouver Independent Film Festival respectively. Also winning Best Cinematography at Vancouver Independent Film Festival; nominated for Raindance Film Festival’s ‘Best UK Feature’; and Evolution Mallorca Film Festival’s ‘Best International Feature’.
Also in 2020, Kirsty produced the psychological horror Father of Flies which premiered in official selection at Raindance 2021. On its festival run to date, it has won Buenos Aires International ‘Best Feature Film’ and ‘Best Score’ and Best Sound Mix’ at Paris Film Festival. The film is being released internationally in 2022.
In 2021 Kirsty also produced the feature documentary Quant which opened in competition at The BFI London Film Festival and is currently on theatrical release.
List of film/TV credits and experience.
Additional resources:
Evening class; Movie money: Where it is, and how to get it
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